Nikhil Deshpande, Email & Phone Number

Portland, Or, Us

Portland, Oregon Area

Incubated and launched Independent Security Attestation SaaS. Led end-to-end product development lifecycle from concept ideation to commercial launch of AI and security technologies. Drove partnerships with Fortune 100 end users, major SIs, cloud providers and ISVs for solution delivery and monetization.  Launched Intel’s first Attestation SaaS for cloud confidential computing data security used by Private LLM training, inferencing, Confidential AI applications by leading a team of product managers and providing directions to engineering teams from development to scale. Defined SaaS product strategy, business plan, MVP, partnership strategy, Go-to-market, and product line roadmap.  Defined Intel’s Attestation SaaS product vision, conducted market analysis, analyzed security requirements, utilized data driven insights to define MVP and product roadmap prioritization. Engaged with CSPs, SIs and end users for deploying the service. Incubated platform innovations for End-to-end data encryption, Confidential computing, Confidential AI, Edge security, trusted supply chain, Privacy Preserving Secure Federated Learning, Zero-day, Insider threat, post-quantum crypto and Homomorphic Encryption. Created strategic partnerships with Cloud providers, System Integrators, and ISVs across segments to define, develop and deliver the Attestation SaaS product. Incubated and managed HPC predictive graph, GNN analytics, and NLP AI acceleration hardware solutions.

Portland, Oregon Area

Defined, managed, and launched Data Center cloud security features across all Xeon server product lines. Aligned and streamlined security investments with customer needs and business drivers via roadmap planning and execution by collaborating with security architects, designers, implementation, and silicon validation teams. Delivered streamlined security features for data protection, data encryption, confidential computing and platform security driven by customer delights, business value, competitive exposure, and internal metrics by aligning execution across architecture, engineering, marketing, and finance. Drove disciplined and customer value driven roadmap/project planning for Intel Xeon data center platforms, FPGA and ASIC products by assessing customer needs and business value of security technologies. Product managed and delivered hardware extensions for AI inference acceleration of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Neural Machine Translation (NMT). Established partnerships with cloud providers, OEMs, ISVs, and SIs for solution deployment. Drove top executive level discussions to define platform security strategy.

Portland, Oregon Area

 Managed technology strategists and market researchers to develop usages, day-in-a-life stories, requirements, and opportunity analysis. Led team to drive ecosystem engagements, internal strategy, and technology transfer to internal product groups for Big Data Privacy Preserving Analytics, Trusted Analytics Platform, Identity and Data Protection. Established strategic R&D partnerships with industry leaders and US and UK government agencies for developing technologies on Intel platforms.

Beaverton, Oregon, United States

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical And Computer Engg

Master’S Degree, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering, Electronics & Telecommunications

Activities and Societies: Electronics Club